Internal Auditor-Rotational Program (Boston)

Ensures successful completion of assigned audit engagements, from start to finish, and sometimes pre-planning and wrap up activities. Depending on assigned engagement, reports to one or more member(s) of the Internal Audit senior management team. Ensure a successful completion of assigned audit for all affiliates, from start to finish, including preplanning and wrap up activities.

Key Accountabilities

• Conduct assigned audit engagements successfully from beginning to end.
• Identify and communicate issues raised, offering recommended solutions relevant to business and risk.
• Review the deliverables of contractors assigned to engagements providing guidance and overall review of deliverables.
• Ensure audit conclusions are based on a complete understanding of the process, circumstances, and risk.
• Execute audit programs and testing procedures relevant to risk and test objectives.
• Obtain, write and review the evidences ensuring audit conclusions are well-documented.
• Manage the Internal Audit Program, which includes assisting in the preparation of a detailed audit plan, making recommendations on the systems and procedures being reviewed, reporting on the findings and recommendations and monitoring manager’s action plans and implementation. This will involve travel to all locations.
• Communicate assigned tasks to engagement team in a manner that is clear and concise ensuring high quality, accurate, and efficient results.
• Organizes agenda and personal planning along the week of audit fieldwork.
• Continue to build relations across the company offering a business advice service as and when required.
• Conduct any reviews ad-hoc.
• Handle highly confidential information.
• Perform statistical and financial analyses.

Networking/Key relationships

Effective communications and relationship with all affiliates stake holders.

Minimum Knowledge & Experience required for the position:

Degree/ diploma obtained, program of study or equivalent and type of experience required.

Management has the discretion of substituting relevant work experience for a degree and/or making exceptions to the years of experience requirement.

Skills & Capabilities:

ESSENTIAL

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Think and act independently.
• Determine strategies to achieve goals.
• Prepare comprehensive reports and correspondence.
• Ability to recognize when learned theoretical concepts should be applied.
• Solid understanding and ability to apply risk and control concepts.
• Interact professionally with various levels of hierarchy employees and outside Group
• Understand, interpret, and apply laws, rules, regulations, policies, procedures, contracts, budgets, and fiscal practices when auditing.
• Complete audit projects on-time and within budget.
• Comfortable with change and improving activities.
• Analyze situations, identify problems, recommend solutions
• Use of initiative and confident decision making.
• Time management – priority setting.

DESIRABLE

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office products.
• SAP basic knowledge.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree - Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Public Administration, Information Systems or another related field.
• MBA or Higher Educational Degree in Finance, Accounting desirable.

Experience:

• A minimum of at least 3 years audit experience is required as well as one or more relevant professional certifications (i.e. CPA, CIA, CISA, CFE).
• Big four accounting firm experience is desirable but not required.

Languages:

• Castellano
• English

Travel requirements:

We are looking for an Internal Auditor to be moved to USA, in a minimum 2-3-year assignment.

This position is to first have an initial onboarding program in Barcelona Headquarters for about 1 years. During this period, the selected candidate will be appointed as Internal Auditor to receive a solid induction of Werfen and the internal Audit function.

Individual Contributor Core Competencies:

Managing Work

Effectively managing one’s time and resources to ensure that work is completed efficiently.

Emotional Intelligence Essentials

Establishing and sustaining trusting relationships by accurately perceiving and interpreting own and others’ emotions and behavior; leveraging insights to effectively manage own responses so that one’s behavior matches one’s values and delivers intended results.

Building Partnerships

Developing and leveraging relationships within and across work groups, including cross-functional groups, to achieve results.

Decision Making

Identifying and understanding problems and opportunities by gathering, analyzing, and interpreting quantitative and qualitative information; choosing the best course of action by establishing clear decision criteria, generating and evaluating alternatives, and making timely decisions; taking action that is consistent with available facts and constraints and optimizes probable consequences.

Continuous Improvement

Originating action to improve existing conditions and processes; identifying improvement opportunities, generating ideas and implementing solutions.

Continuous Learning

Actively identifying new areas for learning; regularly creating and taking advantage of learning opportunities; using newly gained knowledge and skill on the job and learning through their application.